Joint US-PRC climate action limited
By Pei Minxin 裴敏欣
Despite their increasingly bitter rivalry, the US and China have recently been sending the right signals regarding potential cooperation on combating climate change.
The joint statement issued after a meeting in the middle of last month between US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Chinese Special Envoy on Climate Change Xie Zhenhua (解振華) indicates that the two governments might be trying to use collaboration on climate policy to prevent their relationship from devolving into outright enmity.
However, the path ahead is strewn with geopolitical landmines.
It is not difficult to understand why the US and China are behaving responsibly at the moment. Both countries view climate change as an existential threat and have a strong interest in cooperation. US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) know that open intransigence or obstructionism on this issue would cost them
The world turns to China for vaccines after India, US stumble
By Iain Marlow, Sudhi Ranjan Sen
and James Paton / Bloomberg
The world is fast becoming ever more reliant on China for vaccines, with India’s raging virus outbreak stifling its ability to deliver on supply deals, even as the US tries to position itself as a champion of wider access.
Over the past few weeks, leaders of some of the world’s most populous nations have sought more shots from China, despite concerns about their effectiveness. Demand is expected to rise even further if the WHO, as expected, authorizes vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd and Sinopharm Group Co Ltd, allowing developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to access them through COVAX, the global vaccination effort.
Blinken to join China UN event on global cooperation
AP, UNITED NATIONS
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to participate in a UN Security Council meeting chaired by Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) on strengthening global cooperation and the key role of the UN in harnessing international action to tackle the world’s conflicts and crises, China’s ambassador to the UN said on Monday.
The meeting is “the first priority” of China’s UN Security Council presidency this month, and is to be attended not only by Blinken, but “quite a number” of other foreign ministers from the 15 nations on the UN’s most powerful body, Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun (張軍) told a news conference.
COVID-19: Duterte denounces ‘rude’ remarks as vaccine deal sways
Bloomberg
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said that China remains a benefactor amid brewing tensions in disputed waters and while Manila strives to obtain vaccines, including from Beijing, after its Indian deal faces delays.
“China remains our benefactor,” Duterte said in a taped televised briefing. “Just because we have a conflict with China, doesn’t mean to say that we have to be rude and disrespectful.”
Duterte made the comment after Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin earlier on Monday, using his personal Twitter account, posted an expletive-laced demand for China to remove ships from areas in the disputed South China Sea.
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